Problem

i see a lot of license = with licenses; [ mit ] in PRs recently.

compared to the simpler license = licenses.mit, this is both longer and more syntactically complex, taking longer to read for humans, and possibly longer to evaluate too.

Proposal

this should be avoided for single-license packages (which is most of them).

this would not apply to meta.maintainers, for the following reason:

• it is more likely to have multiple values
• it is much more likely to have extra values added in the future.
• maintainers is plural, which implies a list

i would be willing to write this into pkgs/README.md but i'm not going to open a PR until i've gotten some feedback, it wouldn't make sense for me to single-handedly decide what the best practice is.

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